Ricochet Caption Contest #3
James Poulos, Ed. ·
Jul 10, 2010 at 9:24am
Spotted by Ricochet member Ottoman Umpire.
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Jun '10
Re: Ricochet Caption Contest #3
I wish I could do scratch out fonts: "The True Revolutionary is Guided by (scratch Feelings of) Love of Power."
Jun '10
Re: Ricochet Caption Contest #3
Communist revolutionaries are guided by love, like laser-guided missiles are guided by laser light.
Jul '10
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The Dull American Lefty is Guided by Feelings of Smug
Jun '10
Re: Ricochet Caption Contest #3
Here's the quote with an addition: "The True Revolutionary is Guided by Feelings and Love, and nothing says Love like a summary execution."
Re: Ricochet Caption Contest #3
The original quote would work just as well if switched from that '70s Hallmark font, which I'm sure looks exactly like Che's handwriting, to a drippy-blood font.
Jun '10
Re: Ricochet Caption Contest #3
This is a particularly good picture and quote to run on this blog given the preceding discussion of fashion. No matter what one might think of the hideous Che, there is no doubt that his image is iconic. What it also serves to highlight is how fashion can be and often is disconnected from reality. It is almost laughable how the reality of Che differs from the iconic Che, yet it is the icon that survives, and dare I write, serves its own self-perpetuation. What the world supposedly sees in this picture is the idealist and not the mass murder while at the same time not connecting ideal to murder. Ideals like prejudices are short cuts that justify anything, and therein lies their power, for no man dies or kills for a mere man.
Re: Ricochet Caption Contest #3
And below this bumper sticker was another:
"Lose weight now. Ask me how."
Both are equally credible.
May '10
Re: Ricochet Caption Contest #3
"Shortly after this photo was taken, the vehicle was annihilated in a violent Irony Storm. Such storms, once rare, have become increasingly more common in the past year as the overall quantities of progressive politics and 20-something hipster culture have grown to alarming levels in Washington, DC"
"Love Means Occasionally Having to Say, "Up Against the Wall, Comrade."
"Kenneth Gladney was unavailable for comment."
May '10
Re: Ricochet Caption Contest #3
.....onto the ash heap of history.
Jul '10
Re: Ricochet Caption Contest #3
"The True Revolutionary Is Revolting"
May '10
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"The true revolutionary is guided by feelings of revenge."
Re: Ricochet Caption Contest #3
"Got Marx?"
May '10
Re: Ricochet Caption Contest #3
Anyone who wears a shirt emblazoned with Che Guevara is a *bleeping* moron. Period.
May '10
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"If a true Revolutionaries is guided by love, it's really hard to tell."
Re: Ricochet Caption Contest #3
Someone has got to make a fake Che shirt emblazoned with Benicio Del Toro's Dr. Gonzo. The hipness factor alone would probably convince thousands to fashionably drop suddenly loserish Che. Net win for planet Earth. No shortage of worthy catchphrases for the bumper sticker, either. "I hate to say this, but this place is getting to me. I think I'm getting the Fear."
May '10
Re: Ricochet Caption Contest #3
The scene where Gonzo and Duke go see Debbie Reynolds, there is a priceless line which I think summarizes the sentiment people should have about seeing a hagiography of Che: "Why should I pay out my hard-earned dollars to watch a ----ing corpse?"